Monthly Archives: December 2015

Swedish domain registrar PRQ.se blocked access to Russian file sharing website rutor.org. According to “Rossiyskaya gazeta”, the services provided by the tracker are suspended at this time. Current status According to the registry whois, domain name “rutor.org” given the status “clientTransferProhibited”. This means that the owner of the domain registrar can …

10 Reasons to use VPN VPN (Virtual Private network) arose as a result of the demand to make the transmission of data safe. Our data is transmitted over a wide area of network like the Internet so it needs to be secure. Here are 10 reasons to use VPN: …

In this article we (FindVPN.com team) would like to tell the study which was focused on security of Personal VPN Service Providers. It is a well known fact that hackers quite often sniff public Wi-Fi hotspots and eavesdrop (perform MITM atttack) Internet traffic, and moreover they are capable to collect confidential information from …

A new law passed by the Kazakhstani government requires all telecom operators in the country to install a national security certificate on all devises, and will be in effect from January 1. 2016. This certificate will allow the government to monitor all encrypted web traffic going in and out of …

IT experts at a company called FireEye have found a financial threat group FIN1 that targets card-payment data using state of the art going by “BOOTRASH”. This malware executes before the operating system starts. Earlier this year, this malware was introduced. The threat group utilized this malware to change the …

Security breaches by the government are targeting Twitter accounts. In response to these hacks, Twitter sent emails to an undisclosed number of users warning them that they may be victims of a hack by the government. According to Twitter, the hack may disclose their email addresses, IP addresses and phone …

Steam is a gaming platform by Valve software. One of the most outstanding things about Steam is that it enables users to trade items. Steam users are in a position to buy or sell assets linked to real cash that could bring the user a good amount of money. Users …

Earlier this week Microsoft were bold enough to feed the public with the embarrassing information that private keys for Xbox Live had leaked. Microsoft did not disclose the cause of the leak. The good news is that as of the moment there have been no attacks caused by the leaked …

Online security is a trending topic in many online columns these days. This is due to the nefarious attempts of hackers to cause havoc in the lives of ordinary people. However, the users themselves are to blame in a great part for this because people have little or no awareness …

A blog page on a UK-based newspaper The Independent’s website has been shelling out ransomware to people who visit it. The hack is a combination of maladvertising and TelaCrypt ransomware, according to initial reporting by Trend Micro, The Inquirer reports. It is not often that a newspaper itself finds its …